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About The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In)

The greatest haunted house story ever written and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton.

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers whoarrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occultscholar looking for solid evidence of a ”haunting”; Theodora, his lightheartedassistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted withpoltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seemsdestined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But HillHouse is gathering its powers–and soon it will choose one of them to make itsown.

About Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for “The Lottery,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1948 and went on to become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature…. More about Shirley Jackson

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“[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King

“The scariest book I’ve ever read.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

“The books that have profoundly scared me…are few….But Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House beat them all…It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still.”—Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology